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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

DIY: Wreath with Roses made of Recycled Paper!!

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lovethe looka littleretroandvintage of this wreath and I love creating using recycled stuff!! So I want to show you this wreath, that I have decorated with roses and leaves I made using magazines paper!!

ღTUTORIAL: ROSES WREATHღ

MATERIALS:

- Wicker or styrofoam wreathas a support (measure of your choice)- Magazines to be recycled - Hot glue- Staple

I decided to use reds and golds for my roses because I want to use my wreath for Christmas, of curse you can make your own roses using the colors you prefer.

Phase 1: GET THE COLORS YOU NEED!!

Torn from magazines all pages withpinks, reds, browns for the roses and also light and dark greens for the leaves. Writtens and images on the magazines papers will give more movement to your rose!

Phase 2: CREATING THE ROSE

Rip in half a page, you will obtain a strip about 4" high, fold it in half but do not press on the middle!

Insertyour left forefingerat the beginningof the strip andbegins toroll itwith your right hand, as you can see in the pictures below:

Squeeze the base of the rose

Secure the baseof the rosewith thestapler and rollanother stripof paper of alighter ordarker color around the first one.

And here is the rose!

Phase 3: CREATING THE LEAVES

For the leaves fold a 4"high strip of green colors and tear it.

Bendagain the pieceyou have obtainandtear it.

Now you'vegota rectangleof papermeasuring about4 "x 2".On the reverse bend about of 0,2" all sides:

On one side fold the two corners:

Foldthe twocornersagaina second time as in the picture below:

Foldthe two cornerson the other sidejust once,in this way:

And here is a leave!

Fold the leave on the centre to give it a rib:

And here are the rose with its leave!

I used a wicker wreath as a base to fix all my paper roses and leaves with hot glue:

To cover the entire wreath I created nine roses, not all big, I made also some buds rolling only one strip of paper, this is the final result:

I added a red bow and a red ribbon to hang it on the wall:

Tell me what do you think of this project! It is really funny to do! :)